Hey!
my 15m old dd is a boob monster and has cmpa, thankfully just an allergy to cows milk and no other food allergies but of course, I am dairy free for her to BF. She has 3 meals a day plus a couple of snacks if she wanted. Meals are a bit hit and miss, sometimes with eating every meal given to only eating one whole meal a day and picky with the other 2.
I have tried offering soya / oat milk and soya growing up milk which I thought she’d of liked as it’s a bit sweeter than ordinary soya milk. She will have this in cooking, just not via a cup or bottle.
I work from home therefore she has me on tap I suppose. I’ve tried saying no and try to distract her but it ends in tears and then I feel upset. She snack feeds from me during the day, and I mean 5 seconds and then she’s off playing again etc.
Suprise! She doesn’t sleep through the night either. She starts off in her cot at 7pm and by 8.30pm she’s already woken up twice. By 11.30pm I cosleep… I need sleep… therefore she feeds quite a lot through the night still.
I really want to start weaning her off breastmilk as I’d like to get ‘a bit of a life back’ and go away for a night here and there with my husband but how can I when she depends so much on bf?! Any ideas? How can I get her to accept oat/soya milk? How can I start weaning her off me with not so many tears?!
Sorry, I’m rambling. Don’t get me wrong, I love breastfeeding and I’ll be really sad when she weans fully off me but right now I just need a bit of leeway with life in general and I thought by now she’d only be having a morning feed and a night feed🫣
(ps, I am going to start the milk ladder soon with her!)